The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.

I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution, and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.

Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.

If Iran and North Korea, by some horrible, devilish, nightmarish scenario, got together and went to war at the same time, one against Saudi Arabia and one against South Korea, I don't know what we would do about that. I don't know that we could stop them short of using nuclear weapons.

People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.

I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.